[Swift-devel] MPICH/Coasters

[Allan Espinosa]

Right.  Because it will ask the bootstrap server the nodes that participates in
the MPI_WORLD group of the application.  

I was talking about how the mpich2 implementation features dynamically growing
an MPI_WORLD group using the bootstrap server.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:21:20PM -0500, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:50 -0500, Allan Espinosa wrote:
> > Sounds like cool stuff.  So essentially they modularized the process manager
> > component of the mpich2 implementation (or a lamd daemon / manager) to be able
> > to launch other processes.  
> 
> I'm not sure I follow, but I'm guessing the scenario is that you first
> get some nodes on which you start their bootstrap server after which you
> can submit various mpi applications on-demand without going through the
> queuing system again. Right?
> 
>